Flying-machine.



O. TROSSIN. FLYING MACHINE.

APPLICATION FILED JAN.26, 1912.

1,046,682, Patented Dec. 10, 1912.

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Toall whom it concern: I Be it known that I, Orro TROSSIN, a subject of the German Emperor, residing at l-Iamburg, German Empire, have invented a new and nseful'Flying-Machine, of'whicll (liall arranged rotatable sustaining planes I that ,the nun-lune, m case'the motor; should" -heeonle inoperative ort'he pilot; should fdr in the horizontal axis of the-machine. v j

tor invented hy-applirumt, which, holwereig as it forms no part of this Invention, will -.Zig'/.u,',[ path. the sustaining plane pianes for steering the machine in Fig. 1,.o[ my improved flyinganachiiu-s,

some other reason he unahleeto eont ro machine, \\lll glule'slowly 'dmvnwar warm-hates.

A further object of my invention-1. ploy one or several or all of the {.1

well as horizontally. 1

Reference is to he Had to their ing drawings in whiclr- Figure 1 is an elefat'iorn Fig. p view, and Fig. 3 a cross'sectionpn-line 5 a is a l ngitudinal rodor shafhextending b is the motor, preferablyla reaction m not he referred to in detail. The.:motor is disposed in a car I: attached to rod uwliich car also supports the seat for the pilot etc. \Vheels f are attached to the car by meansof springs 11 and an axle e. v On th od a d t lts ends rotatahly arranged aeroplanes g and g which, as is well known, are composed of radial planesand peripheral planes extending from the end of one radial plane to the other, thus forming a wheel-like structure the periphery of which is cylindrical or prismatic.

The aeroplane 5/ is the one in front. It is adapted to turn on a pivot IL. 'ires or 'lines k guided over rollers i to a steering wheel l enable the pilot to give it the desimd-position to act as a rudder for steering the ma chine. Springs m s rve as bullets to reduce the shock when landing. Between the aeroplanes g and gare disposed bearing planes planes form would so com:

id aero g whieh are free to turnon rod a. There are. six ofthem in the present. instance, as illustrated-in Fig; 3; 1 hey have .no peripheral. .plane'sat their ends but form an open structure,tlieir ends"heing only held =to gether by means of wires or rods n. The bearing planes are-here divided into two sets, one forevand one aft, and there is an open space between the twosets. This is required to-he done asotherwisethe axle I: prevent the planes from turning on rod a.

not limited to the arrangement of aeroplanes and hearing? planes sho'wn and described,

nachi'ne fid'the bearingplanes are or ii lie rrangedQhetWeen sets of bearing t nght bela set'orsets of 'd aft, tlen two more n'ffront and at the v plane In front should 'ne lor lmtluvor all of inore' than two, may

. unmanageable for l.ll; \'lll begln tofall.

lihriun i aiid a tlu n meat of the-aecident, probably notjinai itir ely horizontal posi- .t ion huta'tjsome ineliu'ati'on to the horizontal line it will notfalhvertieally hut move in a.

chine moves thus,.the aeroplane that is in l'he (mnsmpu-nee of'this is that; that end of the machine is delayed by the. air resistance -while on the o'thereud the action of said resistance is not; so strong. Consequently the machine will turn over, so that the other aeroplane vis now in front and catches the air, etc. Of course, in changing its'position, the machine will always slide down toward that side to which it. is illClllltKl, and so it -obtains the nec xsary velocity for causing su lieient air resistance to act on the aeroplane u'hiclrisin front. The machine will slide down on a zigzag path, and its [all will lie' hroken to such an extent that the persons on it. are. not lmrtavllen it: touches the ground.

" *qplanes' are at the ends hen dasi'red the aeroplanes enter of the machine,

ete. {It is not neces-' notorfto stop suddenly;

dowmvard ly inelinedpath. 'hen the ma-.

t'mntwill catch .the air at its periphery;

' It may he noted ll erethat this inventlon is ve lbe -:in perfect equi- "sets of bearing planes arranged as-deseribed,

because, if there were but one 'plane,it

might, and probably would, very soon '3 into a vertical or substantially vertical position and its retarding as well as its sliding action would be practically nil. But when the bearing planes are arranged on the radii of a circle, there will always be suflicient resistance to prevent the machine from falling vertically and to cause it to slide in the manner described. Besides, the said arrangement of the bearing planes has the additional advantages that it increases the sustaining surface for 11} of a single plane and that two adjacent planes form a groove or channel in .;which the air is caught, thus giving additional resistance.

I claim:

1. In a flying machine, in combination, a rod or shaft, a car fixed to said shaft, aeroplanes composed of radial-and peripheral planes, and bearing players arranged on the radii of a circle, said aeroplanes and said bearing planes being adapted to turn on said rod or shaft, the aeroplanes being arranged at-the fore and aft ends of the machine with the bearing planes extending substantially from one aeroplane to the other.

2. In a flying machine, in combination, aeroplanes composed of radial and periph eral planes, and bearing planes arranged on the radii of a circle, said aeroplanes and said bearing planes being adapted to turn on their axis, the axis of one of said aeroplanes being. adapted to be displaced relatively to the machine.

OTTO TROSSIN. 

